mrswmtaft

Mrs. Norman Mack, Mrs. Wm. Taft, Mrs. L.L. Francis, Mildred Aubrey (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  She was Harriet T., married to Norman E. Mack (1858-1932) who was the publisher of the Buffalo Times was National Chairman of the Democratic Party Helen Herron, was of course married to William Taft Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Herron_Taft

• BobMeade said:

  And this was taken at the Democratic National Convention of 1912 outside Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory. See adjacent photograph www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3239319120/in/p... The man at right of frame in this photograph is wearing much the same convention regalia on his chest as is being worn by Justus Goebel in the linked photograph.

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks! We'll add to the source data and reload the description.

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Harriet T. Mack is also here: and here:

• Wystan said:

  One wonders what Mrs. William Howard Taft -- first lady, wife of the Republican President of the U. S. -- was doing at the Democratic National Convention? Okay, I found the answer in this paragraph from her bio as first lady: "In July 1912, Nellie Taft again broke precedent when she attended the National Democratic Convention in Baltimore, becoming not only the first incumbent First Lady to attend a convention, but the only one to ever attend that of the opposition party. Although Taft was defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson, it was a partial success to Nellie Taft: her ambition as Election Day neared was to see Roosevelt defeated. The day before she left the White House, Nellie Taft's genuine view on suffrage made itself known: she ascended to a prominent place on a grandstand to review a parade of suffragists and encourage their demand of the incoming president to support a woman's right to vote." Here's another photo by Bain of the same group: